Anita H. Fábos Published: August 26, 2022 8.18am EDT More than 6.5 million Ukrainian war refugees are now scattered across Europeand North America, most with temporary emergency residency allowing them to stay in host…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting…
Speaking at the UN headquarters in October 2021, from left to right: Asila Wardak, Fawzia Koofi, Anisa Shaheed and Naheed Farid. Photograph: UN Women It has been described as Afghanistan’s brain drain,…
Soaring prices and widespread unemployment brought on by the pandemic and the severe economic crisis in Lebanon have plunged thousands of families into “multidimensional poverty,” with around 84 percent of households not…
DHAKA: The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer met with Bangladeshi officials on Wednesday amid growing pressure for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.Although Bangladesh is not a signatory to…
Michelle Bachelet says her office will try to release the report before she leaves at the end of the month. The United Nations human rights chief said a long overdue…
Driving through the Wyoming sagebrush west of Cheyenne, the clouds of dust rising from the road give way to giant plumes of steam shooting into the warming sky. This is…
After drought shriveled US corn plants in the western crop belt, all eyes have been turning to Iowa to help save the national harvest. Instead, the fields in that state…
Volodymyr Zelenskiy had warned of risks of ‘radiation disaster’ as supply disrupted by fighting at power plant Ukraine has said it has managed to partly reconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant…
Wife of founder of People of Praise says members ‘were always crying’ during discussions about women’s subservience to men The People of Praise, a secretive Christian faith group that counts…